Althrough the official Minsk says that foreign representatives will be free to watch the Belarusian-Russian Zapad 2017 military training, Lithuania has not received an invitation yet, Lietuvos Žinios daily said.

The neighboring country had officially said that foreign defense attache accredited to Belarus would be invited to the exercise and pledged to send invitations to military experts of neighboring states, i.e., the Lithuanian army's Weaponry Control Division, to observe the active phase of the exercise in the Belarusian territory on September 14-20.

"Lithuania hopes that Belarus would invite representatives of all neighboring states and provide thorough information during the exercise. Lithuania has not yet received the invitation to observe Russian-Belarusian military training Zapad 2017," the Defense Ministry said.

The large-scale exercise has triggered alarm in the neighboring NATO members.